BY GODWIN OBI The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has made valid clarifications to the Senate Committee on Public Accounts on the debt sum of N1 billion, which the committee said was not clarified in the report of the Auditor General of the Federation. Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko, the ,Managing Director of NPAContinue Reading
CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso BY GODWIN OBI The manufacturing sector suffered a 400 percent increase in net foreign exchange loss to N466 billion in nine months ending September, reflecting the severe impact of the foreign exchange (Forex) market regime. Sector operators said the current forex situation has compounded the pressures emanatingContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI West African leaders meet on Sunday for talks with the region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African StatesContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The leadership of the 10th Senate has donated 109 million naira to victims of mistaken army air strike at Tudun Biri village in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna Stat The Deputy Senate President, Senator Barau Jibrin, who announced the donation when he led other principal officersContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Betta Edu says her nomination as a minister was an answer to her late last year prayer at Shiloh 2022. Shiloh, a yearly event by the Living Faith Church better known as Winners’ Chapel, attracts millions of Christian faithfulContinue Reading
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) says it discovered over 4,800 illegal connections on oil pipelines in the country in what is a grim picture of the country’s major income earner. “We have over 4,800 illegal connections on our pipelines. That means in some lines, within 100 kilometres ofContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI A group, the Concerned Northern Lawyers Forum, has condemned the recent military accidental bombing at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, with a threat to institute legal action against the Federal Government over the incident. The group said the decision toContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI The League of Maritime Editors (LOME) has tasked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to, as a matter of credible task, encourage the immediate disbursement of the Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund (CVFF) to deserving indigenous shipowners and other allied shipping practitioners. President of the League of Maritime Editors (LOME),Continue Reading
BY ADA EZEH The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has expressed readiness to receive their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, after the Supreme Court ruling on December15. Spokesperson of the group, Emma Powerful, in a statement, yesterday, urged IPOB members to remain calm and peaceful, while waiting for the judgement. In theContinue Reading
File: Leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu a court session. BY ADOLPHUS DURU The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Onitsha branch has said it is expecting the rule of law to thrive this time around in the final determination of the treasonable charge against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB,Continue Reading